It's The Guns

Mass shootings, in malls and nightclubs and offices and streets and schools.

It's not mental illness. It's not anger management, video games, liberals, the lack of armed teachers, age limits or the wrong kind of back pack.

It's guns. Plain and simple. Guns kill. It is their only purpose.

An angry, mentally ill, video-game-addicted 25-year-old will not walk into a school to shoot and kill a dozen innocent people if that person does not have access to a gun.

But, in this country, almost everyone has access to guns.

It is time for Americans to end their unhealthy love affair with guns. Where are the brave politicians? Where are the men and women who want our votes, who will speak up and call for the end of private gun ownership?

When asked about gun deaths in 2015, Donald Trump said, "Well, I'm a big Second Amendment guy, so…" and that incomplete sentence ended there. After the murders at Santa Fe High School in Texas, Mr. Trump said mass shootings have been "going on too long in our country."

Yes! Yes, they have. It is time -- way past time -- for politicians at every level of government to take bold, brave action to eliminate the one thing that is responsible for gun deaths and gun violence. Get rid of guns.